Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Democratizing Carbon Markets: A Blockchain-Based Emission Trading System for Small and Large-Scale Stakeholders in Brazil

Jean Martina, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

GS15, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 28 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

DAMTP BioLunch

Recreational Biology: Topological puzzles hiding in cell biology

Prof Manu Prakash, Stanford University.

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 28 March 2025, 13:00-14:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

Interventions and Counterfactuals for the Working Programmer

Dario Stein (Radboud University).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 28 March 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Chow Ring of the Moduli Stack of Hyperelliptic Prym Pairs

Alberto landi, Brown University.

CMS MR13.

Friday 28 March 2025, 14:15-15:15

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

Mitigating the Risks of Metastable Failures in Distributed Systems

Aleksey Charapko, University of New Hampshire.

Computer Lab, FW11 and Online (Teams link will appear before the talk).

Friday 28 March 2025, 15:30-16:30

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

Engineering genomes and proteomes as foundational biotechnology for translational research

Jesse Rinehart, PhD, Associate Professor, Yale University School of Medicine.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 31 March 2025, 12:30-13:30

Foundation AI

Deterministic Neural Syllogistic Reasoning (Part 2)

Tiansi Dong.

Lecture Theatre 2, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Monday 31 March 2025, 17:00-17:45

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

A super-linear lower bound for the iteration number of the Weisfeiler-Leman algorithm

Moritz Lichter (RWTH, Aachen).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 01 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Title to be confirmed

Onkar Gulati, University of Cambridge.

FW11, William Gates Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 04 April 2025, 13:00-13:55

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Guy Goldberg (Weizmann Institute).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, Room SS03.

Tuesday 08 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

compiler socials

User-extensible and Productive Programming of Specialized Hardware

Yuka Ikarashi (MIT CSAIL).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW11.

Wednesday 09 April 2025, 11:00-12:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Predicting recurrence of prostate cancer: a Bayesian approach

Roger Sewell.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Thursday 10 April 2025, 19:15-21:30

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Towards Global-scale Species Distribution Modelling

Oisin Mac Aodha, University of Edinburgh.

Main Seminar Room at the David Attenborough Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Friday 11 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Algorithms and Complexity Seminar

Distribution Learning Meets Graph Structure Sampling

Arnab Bhattacharya (University of Warwick).

Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building, FW26.

Tuesday 22 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Partial Differential Equations seminar

Partial Differential Equations: Oxbridge PDE Conference

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR9.

Thursday 24 April 2025, 10:00-17:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Oliver Hantschel, University of Marburg.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:30

Accelerate Lunchtime Seminar Series

Brain cancer research

Queenie Wong, Department of Clinical Neuroscience .

SS03 Seminar Room, Willam Gates building (Department of Computer Science and Technology).

Monday 28 April 2025, 12:30-13:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Nicole Righi (King's College London).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 28 April 2025, 13:00-14:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Dr Bjarne Bergh, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:00-15:00

Algebraic Geometry Seminar

The Heisenberg algebra of a vector space and Hochschild homology

Timothy Logvinenko, University of Cardiff.

CMS MR13.

Wednesday 30 April 2025, 14:15-15:15

DAMTP BioLunch

Accurate Diffusion Estimation From Simulation and the Impacts on Temperature Dependent Modelling

Dr Andrew McCluskey (University of Bristol).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Hang Li (Sorbonne Université).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Computer Laboratory Systems Research Group Seminar

The Case for Decentralized Scheduling in Modern Datacenters

Smita Vijayakumar, Systems Research Group, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory.

FW11.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Mordell Lectures

Title to be confirmed

Tim Austin (Warwick).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Kevin Buzzard (Imperial College London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 01 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Pietro Lesci (University of Cambridge).

Zoom link: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 02 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Anitha Thillaisundaram, Lund.

MR13.

Friday 02 May 2025, 13:45-14:45

Engineering - Dynamics and Vibration Tea Time Talks

Pianos, guitars and double decays

Prof. Jim Woodhouse, Emeritus, CUED.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

Professor Hugo Spiers.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 02 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Johnson (Perimeter Institute and York University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Longfei Shangguan, University of Pittsburgh.

Online.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

General solution to gauged U(1) anomaly equations

Ben Allanach (DAMTP).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 06 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Justin Coon, University of Oxford.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Prakash Murali - Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 07 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Rouse Ball Lectures

Causality-Inspired Machine Learning: A Path to More Robust AI Systems

Prof Peter Bühlmann (ETH Zurich).

Cockcroft Lecture Theatre, New Museums Site.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Energy and Environment Group, Department of CST

Machine Learning for Building-Level Heat Risk Mapping

Andrea Domiter, University of Cambridge.

Room FW11 at the David Attenborough Building. Zoom link: https://cl-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4361570789?pwd=Nkl2T3ZLaTZwRm05bzRTOUUxY3Q4QT09&from=addon .

Thursday 08 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Signal Processing and Communications Lab Seminars

Causal Representation Learning

Prof. Ali Tajer, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ​.

JDB Seminar Room, CUED.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrew Yang (Imperial College, London).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 08 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

NLIP Seminar Series

Asymmetry in Supposedly Equivalent Facts: Pre-training Bias in Large Language Models

Zifeng Ding (University of Cambridge).

Room FW26 with Hybrid Format. Here is the Zoom link for those that wish to join online: https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/4751389294?pwd=Z2ZOSDk0eG1wZldVWG1GVVhrTzFIZz09.

Friday 09 May 2025, 12:00-13:00

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Revisiting strain-gradient theory in the light of two-scale expansions

Manon Thbaut, Ecole polytechnique .

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Logic and Semantics Seminar (Computer Laboratory)

A topological proof of the H-colouring dichotomy

Jakub Oprsal (University of Birmingham).

SS03, Computer Laboratory.

Friday 09 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Zangwill Club

The Functions of Episodic Memory

Ali Boyle.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 09 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Arnaud de Mattia (IRFU, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 12 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

TBA

Bernardo Araneda (Edinburgh).

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 13 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Edwin Brady - School of Computer Science, University of St Andrews.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Theoretical Physics Colloquium

To be confirmed

Professor Gary Horowitz - University of California, Santa Barbara.

MR3.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Invitation to Leavitt path algebras

Roozbeh Hazrat, University of Western Sydney.

MR12.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

Algebra and Representation Theory Seminar

Invitation to Leavitt path algebras

Roozbeh Hazrat, University of Western Sydney.

MR12.

Wednesday 14 May 2025, 16:30-17:30

RSE Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Peichao Qin - Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

New Insights on High Wave Scattering by Multiple Open Arcs: Exponentially Convergent Methods and Shape Holomorphy

Carlos Jerez Hanckes (University of Bath).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Andrei Popescu (University of Sheffield).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 15 May 2025, 17:00-18:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Dan Bompa, University of Surrey, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 16 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Ayesha Bennett, University of Cambridge.

MR13.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Zangwill Club

How do (and don't) we take other perspectives?

The host for this talk is Nicky Clayton

Steven Samuel, Lecturer, City St. George's, University of London. .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 16 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

David Savage, UC Berkeley.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 19 May 2025, 12:30-13:30

Dirac Lecture

To be confirmed

Professor Alain Aspect - Paris Saclay University.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 19 May 2025, 14:30-16:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Adrien La Posta (University of Oxford).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Mobile and Wearable Health Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, Cornell University.

Online.

Tuesday 20 May 2025, 16:00-17:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Dr Elliott Wu - Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 21 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

RSE Seminars

Fortitude and Tree-Sitter

Liam Pattinson and Peter Hill, University of York Plasma.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sheehan Olver (Imperial College London).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 22 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alice Cicirello, University of Cambridge, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 23 May 2025, 14:30-15:30

Zangwill Club

To be confirmed

The host for this talk is Sarah-Jayne Blakemore

Professor Ron Mangum,Center for Mind and Brain 267 Cousteau Place Davis, CA .

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 23 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Prof. Marco Mondelli, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 14:00-15:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 28 May 2025, 15:05-15:55

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Alberto Paganini (University of Leicester).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 29 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Lawk Mineh, Bonn.

MR13.

Friday 30 May 2025, 13:45-14:45

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Alex Glyn-Davies, University of Cambridge, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 30 May 2025, 15:00-16:00

Zangwill Club

TBC

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Zangwill Club

TBC

Peter Godfrey Smith.

Ground Floor Lecture Theatre, Department of Psychology.

Friday 30 May 2025, 16:30-18:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Eleonora Di Valentino (University of Sheffield).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 02 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Wednesday Seminars - Department of Computer Science and Technology

Title to be confirmed

Professor Gabriele Gradoni - Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey and visiting academic at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge .

Lecture Theatre 1, Computer Laboratory, William Gates Building.

Wednesday 04 June 2025, 15:05-15:55

RSE Seminars

Symbolic Regression for Model Discovery in Python and Julia

Miles Cranmer - DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

JJ Thomson Seminar Room, Maxwell Centre, and on Zoom.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Sergio Blanes (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 05 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Davide Spriano, Oxford.

MR20.

Friday 06 June 2025, 13:45-14:45

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Etienne Camphuis (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 09 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Leonardo Tolomeo (University of Edinburgh).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 12 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Geometric Group Theory (GGT) Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Raphael Appenzeller, Heidelberg.

MR20.

Friday 13 June 2025, 13:45-14:45

Engineering - Mechanics and Materials Seminar Series

Title to be confirmed

Dr Peter C. Collins, Iowa State University.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Friday 13 June 2025, 14:00-15:00

Seminars on Quantitative Biology @ CRUK Cambridge Institute

QBS

Shohei Koide, NYU Langone Health.

CRUK CI Lecture Theatre.

Monday 16 June 2025, 12:30-13:30

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Hendrik Hildebrandt (Ruhr University Bochum).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 16 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Formalisation of mathematics with interactive theorem provers

Title to be confirmed

Jujian Zhang (Imperial College London) and Arnaud Mayeux (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

MR14 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 19 June 2025, 17:00-18:00

Junior Geometry Seminar

Title to be confirmed

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14 - note venue change.

Friday 20 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cosmology Lunch

Title to be confirmed

Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University).

CMS, Pav. B, CTC Common Room (B1.19) [Potter Room].

Monday 23 June 2025, 13:00-14:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Liying Sun (Chinese Academy of Sciences).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 15:00-16:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

Title to be confirmed

Jianbo Cui (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Thursday 26 June 2025, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

All models are wrong and yours are useless: making clinical prediction models impactful for patients

Florian Markowetz, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 07 October 2025, 19:15-21:30

Engineering Department Structures Research Seminars

Title to be confirmed

Matthew Santer, Imperial College London, UK.

CivEng Seminar Room (1-33) (Civil Engineering Building).

Friday 10 October 2025, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Benefits of data openness in a digital world

Sam Gilbert, Bennett Institute for Public Policy.

Venue to be confirmed.

Monday 03 November 2025, 19:00-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

100 years of educational trials – no significant difference?

Riikka Hofmann, Faculty of Education.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 November 2025, 19:15-21:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Connecting the False Discovery Rate to shrunk estimates

Nick W Galwey (Former Statistics Leader, Research Statistics, at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development (Retired)).

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 03 February 2026, 19:15-21:00